The July Cummins of the Month contest is live. Please read carefully below, as voting especially, has changed.
THIS MONTH'S THEME IS RED, WHITE AND BLUE. Only trucks in those 3 colors can be entered this month.
You no longer vote via LIKES. The last week of each month going forward, a poll will be added to the thread with all the entries and you will have 7 days (or 5, depending on how quick I am to get the poll up and how well the thread is moving) to cast your vote. This is a more traditional way of running things and based on feedback, will be a welcome change.
You must own the submitted ride.
You can enter 3-5 pics of your ride. I would strongly suggest submitting pics with no people in it (dogs are fine) or at the least, crop them out of it.
Feel free to give a little backstory on your ride. Whether that be the modifications it has, how you came to own it, or just a fun story. Don't be afraid to share your ride's story.
If you have won in a previous month, you can no longer enter for the rest of the year. However, if you have a second car that meets the above criteria, you can enter that.
The winner at the end of the month will win a free 1 Year Premium Membership for the forum and a custom flair under their username. If the winner is already a premium member, their subscription will be extended an additional year.
Winners will be featured on the sites gallery, found here.
Congrats to June's Cummins of the Month winner, @cabbage658!
This will be fun...so I'll get things started this month.
This is Blue, my '94 sheetbox. It's 12V powered (duh) with a 5 spd. RWD. Has the period correct custom Dodge paint and had Laramie badges on it when it came to me. Laramie didn't constitute much in 1994...lol.
Backstory: I had been looking for a project 12V for a few years and a buddy of mine told me one of his coworkers was selling his. The older gentleman was the second owner and his father-in-law had been the 1st. He basically just wanted to sell it quickly with minimal hassle. Verbal description from my friend told me it met the 3 things I was looking for: it ran, it drove and is wasn't all rusty. It was all stock except for a BD exhaust brake, had 175k miles on it and hadn't been abused getting there. He hadn't even listed it yet when I called on it. He said he wanted $2000 because it wasn't cleaned up. I essentially replied with "Shut up and take my money." It needed brakes REALLY bad and a bit of cleaning right away but other than that it has been great. It's definitely a work in progress but it'll be fun along the way. The 22" wheels and canopy were free so I figured why not. Future plans include engine work to put it in the 450-500 hp range, interior upgrades, paint and lowering.
This is my 2012 ram 3500 with 56k we call the "tow hoe"
Buying this truck was a big deal for me. She replaced my custom 93 1st gen crew cab in had owned for 12 years.
Its a '12 Laramie with all the options. It has an edge cs display screen and efi live tuning. A fleece cheeta turbo with a banks monster ram intake horn. 5 " exhaust with a high flow muffler. Bds lift with fox shocks, 20" fuel wheels and 35" toyos. Spyder projector headlights and an after market grill insert. I built a custom spare tire delete air system for on board air, train horns and top manage my air bags for toying our toy hauler.
Its funny, this truck is the exact same color combo my 1st gen was when I bought it. Coincidence, I think not!!
2014 Ram 3500 Laramie, 85k. Monster Mayhem 22 x 8.25 with Pirelli Scorpions 325/55/22. 4.5 lift in the front and 2 in the rear. My everyday ride. LED lighting. S&B cold air intake, Stealth box and pedal commander only performance type mods.
Brandy's my 2018 Ram 2500 Big Horn Crew Cab 4x4, 27k. Stock with the tow package, excluding the Katzkin Leather interior and Michelin LTX A/T2 LT275 70/R18. Got her to pull Betty, my 5er, but enjoy her so much she's become my daily driver too. Brandy needs a bath after hitting muddy dirt roads last weekend with Betty. 😉 Thankfully a good rainstorm did most of the work for me. 🤗 My wife isn't jealous. She gets to name all our vehicles.
This my 2001 Dually work truck. Shes rust free and mean...297k and drives like new and with the mods it pulls everything I have to put behind it. Also thats the original paint.
This is my 2005 that I bought brand new in 2004. It’s been a great truck with original paint, engine, and transmission with 203,000 miles on it. 5” turbo back exhaust, ATS exhaust manifold, Smeling intercooler, MM3 programmer, outdated K&N cool air intake, leveled, air bags, bumper, goose neck and 5th wheel. Also has a Line-X bed liner. Has pulled VERY heavy loads and has NEVER been a pavement princess. Used for what it was designed for. Take good care of your truck, too dang expensive now. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hello everyone, this is my 2017 2500 CCLB with the 68rfe 76k on it running a thuren 2&3/4 inch soft ride coil with fox 2.0 resi up front and fox 2.0s in rear on 20x9 American force trax wrapped in 35/11.5 nitto terra grappler g2s truck is stock other than a CAI s&b oiled filter Wanting to throw a race me ultra on it soon I am the original owner of her and love this thing my buddies and gaynor brother detailing just did a paint correction and ceramic coating on it june of 2020 and just did my cab june 2021
2002 Ram 2500 HO Quad Cab 6-Speed
I bought this truck April 13, 2002 directly from the factory via the Military Overseas Buying Program while deployed to the Med. I almost missed the last production day of the 2nd Gen’s due to being extended at sea!
Here's what he's packing… so far:
Patriot Blue Pearlcoat w/Bright Silver rckr
Banks: 4”exhaust, exhausted side Turbo mod, High Ram, Ottomind, Exhaust Brake
BD Exhaust Pulse Manifold
BD Boost elbow
Cummins Valve Cover Red
FASS Fuel Pump
A-Pillar Gauges: Fuel Press, EGT, Boost
Carhartt gray seat covers fr & bk
3” Suspension Lift
Mag-Hytec: Diff Covers Dana 60 & 80
Black Rhino Granges 20x9 8x165 -18
Toyo ATIIIs35x12.5 Load F
BW Turnover Ball & Companion Hitch
BW Tow and Stow Hitch
Timbren 6klb Bump Stops Rear
35 gal Diesel In-Bed Tank and Pump
Borgeson: Steering Shaft and Box
BD Track Bar
Synergy Heavy Duty Steering Kit
Bilstein Steering Damper
Slobber tube mod back to tranny
And a new PITA fuel level sensor!
I’m not done adding on to it yet, as I’ve only had it for 19 years (every mile of 294786 is mine except for 2).
Twin turbos and all associated with getting it to about 450 hp is coming next!
I replaced the entire front end, vacuum pump, power steering, hydro boost, and Mstr Cyl. last month while doing the lift kit install and the steering upgrades. They were a bear to accomplish, but well overdue. The Ball Joints and Hubs only had 294k on them (just a little stubborn to remove… just a little lol). Anyway, that's my truck.
You know, I never looked at it like that! I've been through four houses since I bought it. Hopefully, the wife will see this logic as well! (hehe, not likely).
Here she be.
2006 3500 dually Big Horn
6.7 swap with 12v rods arp rod bolts
D&J stage 2 Head secured with arp 625 studs
Hamilton pushrods
Giving her fuel is a set of stock dual fuelers
Airdog 165 with a fleece filter delete kit and bottom sump.
220hp injectors
EfI live tuning from Anarchy
Afe blade runner intake
S468 on a BD 3 piece 2nd gen manifold
5" straight piped
Flex fan dual electric fans
Making the wheels turn is a g56 with a southbend stage 2 clutch.....that I baby
Holding her up in the front is a set of 2.5" superlift soft springs fox 2.0s all the way around.
Extended track bars.
Thuren Fab 2" adjustable shackles in the rear with a set of Firestone bags to carry the gooseneck.
ATX 22.5 wheels wrapped in 37" tires
10 lug adapters.
This has been my dream project that obviously is ongoing lol
07 5.9 w/ G56, already down sized wheels and tires once since I’ve owned it, gonna do it again, just have to take the lift off or I’ll look just as stupid with 33’s and smaller rims (as I plan to put on it)
Rather stock, with only an Edge EZ and I believe something like 40 horse injectors. Bought it in March of 2020, with the front end needing completely rebuilt.
Currently has 240,000 miles, and spends most of its life hooked to a trailer hauling hay, equipment, horses, or something.
Hi all, I am new to this forum and look forward to finding helpful info and hopefully providing some too ! I think I have an interesting submission. Wife and I are running a small restraunt in the Mountains of Costa Rica and needed a vehicle for travel and the farm and business. We came accross this very rare sapphire blue (sold originally in CR) 2007 Ram 2500 5.9 Big Horn SLT. We Love this truck and hope that you do too...! Bob C
Here's mine. It was silver when I bought it. I bought a black shell for it and painted it to match when I replaced the bed with one that didn't have any rust over the wheels. The whole thing is sprayed with Raptor Liner. It has on board air added to it and a set of train horns. New headlights, LED lights added to the bumper recently.
So here we have my 1997 Ram 2500 12 valve (obviously) SLT Laramie trim + Minnesota trim which comes factory with rust. Got it with 301,xxx back in January, came bone stock. Since then I’ve put about 5k on her, put newer tow mirrors on it, took the running boards off, put a black grille on it, got the front 2 windows tinted and got aftermarket head and tail lights, and have a kustom exhaust, and I know you’re thinking custom is spelled with a c.... its a very redneck designed one until I can get something nice like a M.B.R.P. Anyways thats mostly everything I’ve got done to it so far, gauges are supposed to be getting here tomorrow. Down the road, 6 speed, wheels/tires, bull guard, 4th gen seats, lift pump, and fixing the Minnesota trim package.
Little backstory, this is my second 97 but 1st cummins, other truck was a 360 gasser. But grew up around a silver ‘02 3500 dually 6 speed H.O. truck which I learned to drive stick and to drive on and was dead set on having one for myself, little did I know that the post for this truck would pop up on market place and I’d have my dream truck by 17 years old.
Here is my 2001 2500 24v with NV5600 behind it. Has 124k on her and is solid. Bought it about two months ago, and it has been a slight problem child since day one lol. Like the the lift pump dying the day I took it to get inspected. Stockish for now, but building her up. Won top 3 work in progress at Truck Fest in the Valley 2k21 a few weeks ago.
Many years ago, when I was in grade school, I remember the local tire craft had a dodge diesel. Back then didn’t know much, nor cared to, about them. Fast forward about 20 some years, I see the grill of this truck buried in the back of a large construction company’s lots. Asked the owner if that the truck that was buried in the back was for sale. Paid him his cash, after taking a look at it. And turned out to be this old dodge I remember the tire company owning. Sitting for 10 plus years, a set of booster cables and it didn’t crank more than 3/4 of a crank. Ran as good as it did from new. It’s a 1993 d250 auto.
Get those votes in. The poll closes tomorrow night.
Just a FYI, I'm not typically on on weekends, so the winner will be officially announced on Monday but you all will at least be able to check the poll and know ahead of time
-Mike
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